Jacques Marcus Prevost
(1736-1781)
BIRTH
1736
PLACE
Geneva, Switzerland
DEATH
1781
PLACE
Colony of Jamaica, British Empire
FAMILY
FATHER
Augustin Prevost
(1695-1740)
WIFE
Theodosia Bartow Burr
(1746-1794)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Jacques-Marc Prevost (1736–1781), known in English as James Marcus, was a Swiss-born officer in Britain’s Royal American Regiment. Wounded at Ticonderoga in 1758, he later married Theodosia Bartow and bought the New Jersey property called the Hermitage. During the Revolution he served Britain in the southern colonies and Caribbean while his wife protected their home through Patriot connections. He died in Jamaica in 1781; she married Aaron Burr in July 1782.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Jacques Marcus Prevost’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Jacques Marcus Prevost with work or public activity as a soldier. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Prevost was recalled to service during the American Revolutionary War, when he served briefly as colonial governor of the Province of Georgia in 1778 after the British occupied Savannah, Georgia. The battle culminated with the British capture of Savannah in December 1778, where Prevost was briefly assigned as British governor of Georgia, in succession to Archibald Campbell. Jacques-Marc Prevost, known in English as James Marcus, was a Swiss-born officer in Britain’s Royal American Regiment. Wounded at Ticonderoga in 1758, he later married Theodosia Bartow and bought the New Jersey property called the Hermitage. During the Revolution he served Britain in the southern colonies and Caribbean while his wife protected their home through Patriot connections. He died in Jamaica in 1781; she married Aaron Burr in July 1782. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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